Beth Hodges Soft Furnishings
 
 
About Beth Hodges and Soft Furnishings
 

Beth Hodges
Beth Hodges is the owner of Soft Furnishings, a workroom located in Elberton, Georgia, which, after 22 years, is still based in the basement of her home. She operated Soft Furnishings for the first eight years as a one-person retail workroom. Now, Soft Furnishings has expanded to employ five people and provides a wide variety of wholesale workroom services around the country. The workroom has grown incrementally through Beth’s attention to customer service and her product knowledge. She attends shows and seminars regularly, and strives to keep Soft Furnishings’ methods up to date and at the very highest end of the current industry standards. Each project is handled with individual attention, and great care is taken to “engineer” each job for optimum results. Each of the seamstresses employed by Soft Furnishings has over 30 years of experience, and takes extreme pride in the production of high quality window treatments and accessories.  


Soft Furnishings specializes in the “difficult” jobs. Kingston and Empire treatments have become a particular favorite. Design assistance, with proper attention to the appropriateness of period, style, proportion and detail is offered on each job undertaken. Hodges, an accomplished drapery installer, is the Professional Installation Techniques instructor at the Custom Home Furnishings Academy in Charlotte, North Carolina. She has been teaching seminars around the country for twelve years and has developed a series of seminars ranging from installation information to complicated pattern drafting and construction methods. As an installer and fabricator, she has a unique perspective on engineering window treatments and the way they work. In addition to seminars, Beth is the senior member of a gifted group of professionals who offer private consultations through the Custom Home Furnishings School. Currently president of the Window Coverings Association of America, Hodges has served as a director of the WCAA for six years as well as holding the office of treasurer, vice president, chairperson of the Workroom Committee, and chairperson of the Education Committee. She has been certified by Window Fashions Magazine as a Window Fashions Certified Professional at the highest level: Master, and has been certified by the Window Coverings Association of America as both a Certified Window Coverings Professional and a Certified Workroom Professional. Beth was the recipient of the Elberton-Elbert County Chamber of Commerce’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2005, and sits on the Editorial Board of Window Fashions Magazine. She has been the keynote speaker at many gatherings of window coverings professionals.

Beth Hodges, CWP, CWTC, WFCP

Certified Workroom Professional  Custom Home Furnishings Academy   Certified Window Treatment Consultant  

Window Coverings Association of America

Beth has taught classes for the Custom Home Furnishings Conference, International Window Coverings Expo, Draperies and Window Coverings Magazine, Window Fashions Magazine, and many Window Coverings Association of America local chapters including the North East Chapter, Southeast Pennsylvania Chapter, Atlanta Chapter, Phoenix Chapter, Triangle Chapter, Jacksonville Chapter, Central New Jersey Chapter and the San Jose Chapter.

Beth is proud to be a member of the Window Coverings Weekend Academy team traveling throughout the country. Willing to create presentations to the needs of those who ask, Beth has presented the following topics:

  • All About Banding
  • Altering Purchased Patterns
  • Back to Basics
  • Creating Difficult Treatments
  • Creating Patterns
  • Difficult Windows
  • Embellishments From Concept to Completion
  • Empire and Kingstons
  • Five Not So Easy Pieces (step by step directional for difficult treatments)
  • Hardware
  • Little Things That Make a Big Difference
  • Measure Twice Drill Once
  • Skirted Panels
  • Starting an Installation Business
  • Traverse Rods
  • Wall Anchors
  • What Designers and Workrooms Need to Know About Installation

Please contact Beth at 706 283-8142 for costs involved.

 

D&WC Cover Photo of Beth Hodges, CWP, CWTC, WCAA President and member, WCFP Master, and CHF Techniques Instructor (see photo on left)

The work of Soft Furnishings has been published many times, and Beth has written many articles on installation and construction of window treatments. She has appeared on the cover of Draperies and Window Coverings Magazine, which included a cover story about her business, as well as in articles in Window Fashions Magazine and Sew What? Magazine.

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